Taylor HS Social Subjects Department is now on Twitter!
We’ll be updating on global events related to History, Modern Studies, Geography and Tourism as well as keeping you posted on what the department is doing to support remote learning.
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Scottish Parliament elections are scheduled to take place on 6th May 2021. If you will be 16 years old by then, you may be eligible to vote.
You will need your National Insurance Number.
Make sure you register here:
https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote
27th January marks Holocaust Memorial Day
The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (HMDT) encourages remembrance in a world scarred by genocide (mass murder of a particular group of people). They promote and support Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) – the international day on 27 January to remember the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, alongside the millions of other people killed under Nazi Persecution and in genocides that followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.
The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) 2021 is Be the light in the darkness. It encourages everyone to reflect on the depths humanity can sink to, but also the ways individuals and communities resisted that darkness to ‘be the light’ before, during and after genocide.
Take a moment to reflect and learn more here:
Holocaust Memorial Day Service
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyFjlP9YgSo
https://www.hmd.org.uk/what-is-holocaust-memorial-day/this-years-theme/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-55816309
Holocaust Memorial Day takes place on 27th January each year. This is a time to remember the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust, under Nazi Persecution and in the genocides which followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.
Holocaust Memorial Day is a time when we seek to learn the lessons of the past and recognise that genocide does not just take place on its own – it’s a steady process which can begin if discrimination, racism and hatred are not checked and prevented.
Scotland’s Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) Ceremony 2021 has been organised as a virtual ceremony. The ceremony will be premiered online at 2pm on 27 January 2021. The ceremony features testimonies from Holocaust survivor Mala Tribich, as well as the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of survivors from subsequent genocides in Darfur, Rwanda, Bosnia and Cambodia. You can watch the Ceremony on YouTube or Vimeo:
Be the light in the darkness.
The Scottish Association of History Teachers has created a challenge to research important women in history.
See the link above.
Are you up for the challenge?????
The Social Subjects Department will run a series of subject specific online tutorials/drop in sessions/live lessons during the period of remote learning.
Tutorials and drop in sessions are not live lessons, but opportunities for you to login at specific times to speak to your teachers about your work and ask questions via a Microsoft Teams meeting. If your teacher is running a live lesson, it will say that next to the time allocated.
All will take place online at an agreed time with your teacher, when you would normally be timetabled for that class as follows:
Miss Stoutjesdyk’s Classes
3D1 History (week 2 only) – Wednesdays 11-11.30am
4D History – Mondays – 1.30-2pm
4C History – Tuesdays – 1.30-2pm
5E History (Higher/N5) – Wednesdays – 1.30-2pm
5A History (Advanced Higher) – Thursdays – 11.00-11.30am
Miss Conlon’s Classes
Week 1:
3H Modern Studies – Wednesdays – 11-11.30am
4E Modern Studies – Wednesdays – 1:30 to 2pm
4F Modern Studies – Thursdays – 9:30 to 10am
Week 2:
4E Modern Studies – Mondays – 2:30-3pm
3C2 History – Wednesdays – 10-10.30am
4F Modern Studies – Wednesdays – 11-11.30am
Miss Kane’s Classes
4E History – Live Lesson – Tuesday – 10.30-11.30am – Week 1
4E History – Live Lesson – Mondays – 1.30-2.30pm – Week 2
3C2 History – Tutorial – Wednesdays – 10-10.30am – Week 2
5D History – Tutorial – Fridays each week
Mrs Connell’s Classes
Weekly Live Lessons
Monday
4D Modern Studies P5
5C Modern Studies P6+7
Thursday
4D Modern Studies 9.30-10.30am
Friday
5C Modern Studies 9.30-10.30am
Mr Dale’s Classes
Week 1
1.2 Social Subjects online live Drop in Session
Thursday 10-10.30am
Week 2
3D Geography Tutorial – Monday at 2.00-2.30pm
2.2 Geography Tutorial – Thursday at 11-11.30am
Weekly
5B Geography Live Lessons – Mondays:
4D Geography Tutorial – Mondays – 1.30-2pm
Miss Hardie’s Classes
Week 1
4E Geography – Wednesdays – 1.30-2pm
Week 2
4E Geography – Mondays – 2-2.30pm
Mr McPake’s Classes
5A Modern Studies (Higher) – Thursdays – 11.30-12pm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55738564
22 year old Amanda Gorman became the youngest ever Inauguration poet yesterday as she recited her poem ‘The Hill we Climb’ at President Joe Biden’s inauguration cermony yesterday.
Quite the achievement!
Today, the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States takes place. This will mark the beginning of the four-year term of Joe Biden as President and Kamala Harris as Vice President. Biden and Harris will take the presidential oath and be sworn into office. The ceremony will take place in front of the US Capitol in Washington D.C. Coverage of the event will take place from 4pm on BBC and ITV. You can also watch coverage of the event here: Biden inauguration live: Washington readies for handover of power – BBC News
Joe Biden is part of the Democratic Party. He was Barack Obama’s Vice President from 2009-2017. At 78 years of age, Biden will be the oldest person to become President of the USA. He won the 2020 Presidential Election with a total of 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232 electoral votes.
Joe Biden’s Vice President, Kamala Harris, also made history by being America’s first female, first Black and first South-Asian Vice President.
In Joe Biden’s victory speech he said, “I pledge to be a President who seeks not to divide but to unify.”
“A nation united. A nation strengthened. A nation healed. The United States of America.”
Toady is Martin Luther King Jr Day in the USA. It is a public holiday to commemorate his non violent activism in the Civil Rights Movement during the 1950s and 60s.
MLK Jr wanted Americans to be equal regardless of the colour of their skin and he encouraged non violent protests to draw attention to the fact that black Americans were being discriminated against. He became very well known globally, but was assassinated in 1968.
Do you think America has achieved the equality that he aimed for????
S2 Social Subjects classes will rotate on Monday 25th January 2021.
S2 pupils should work remotely from the following class Teams from that date.
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You should all already be members of these Teams and even though you are returning to subjects you’ve been in before in S2, you will be studying different topics.
Enjoy!
